The NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages has released the statistics on the most popular baby names of 2017, sharing that the Kindy classes of 2022 and 2023 will be filled with Olivers, Charlottes, Williams and Olivias.
This is great information to have if you’re into more unusual names – and also if you want your future offspring to have names that are common, and thus easily understood, and spelled.
Oliver topped the state’s Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages list of 100 most popular baby names for the fourth year in a row.
William came in second for boys, maintaining its place for those four years, after having been usurped from the number one spot in 2013.
Girls, on the other hand, have a new number one: Charlotte, which beat 2016’s winner Olivia. But there’s only just a handful of difference in the numbers, making the names strong competition with each other for the top position, for the third year in a row.
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I always thought it was important to give children a well known name so they wouldn't have to spell it out all the time. Now that my children are at school I would avoid this list entirely. It's terribly frustrating for children to have a child in class with the same name - we have multiple Ella's and it's a really bad idea.
The NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages has released the statistics on the most popular baby names of 2017, sharing that the Kindy classes of 2022 and 2023 will be filled with Olivers, Charlottes, Williams and Olivias.
As opposed to now, with NSW kindy classes absolutely bereft of Olivers, Charlottes, Williams and Olivias?
I'm a primary school teacher and there's not a single name on this list I haven't come across multiple times. Sometimes multiple times in the same class. No surprises at all on this list!